Fashion File - Rick Owens

Fashion File - Rick Owens - Designer

Rick Owens - Fall/Winter 2004

Rick Owens has been spending a lot more time in Paris this year, pulling double duty designing for the house of Revillion. Now he's showing his signature collection on the prêt-a-porter calendar. In many ways, his gothic sensibility seems more at home in the City of Light than his Los Angeles roots.

Rick Owens - Spring/Summer 2003

LA-based designer Rick ‘Gothmeister’ Owens never felt the need, or desire, to show his clothes in New York – until last season. His profile increased dramatically after showing on the east coast for Fall 2002 – enough to permanently alter his views about fashion shows and to lure him back for Spring 2003. If you’ve ever wondered how Rick Owens’ famously dark aesthetic would translate into a spring collection, now’s your chance to find out.

Rick Owens - Fall/Winter 2002

For the past few seasons, Style.com and the heavy-hitting fashionistas that reside there have been selecting new talent and offering them a venue to showcase their work on the New York fashion calendar. This season, the buzz was behind Rick Owens, an unusual suspect from sunny California, with a decidedly dark vision. For this collection, Owens looked for the heart of darkness in the California sunshine, recalling moments from his youth and contrasting the sights and sounds of the San Joaquin Valley with the rigorous fashion of Claude Montana and Thierry Mugler in the pages of old French Vogues.